The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a ...

The FDA has approved the Minima stent system, the first device specifically designed for infants and young children with congenital heart defects. The innovative stent could help thousands of children ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A new study on heart stents produced sobering and possibly life-altering results. It says that stents may not be needed in some cases. As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reports, the key ...

Federal health advisers overwhelmingly backed the safety and effectiveness of an experimental heart stent that slowly dissolves into the body after doing its job This undated image provided by Abbott ...

As you may be aware, the heart’s arteries are not rigid pipes; they’re living structures that twist, flex, constrict, expand, ...

Each year, nearly a million Americans undergo implantation of heart stents. These tiny, wiry tubes of woven metal help prop open the coronary arteries, which supply the heart muscle with blood. Though ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Moments after Reyes Santos Terrazas rolled out of surgery, he said he already felt like a new man. “I felt the difference as soon as he was doing the work,” said Terrazas. “I told [the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A disappearing medical implant will get a closer look from the Food and Drug Administration this week. The FDA meets on Tuesday to review Abbott Laboratories' first-of-a-kind heart ...

Jerry Bailey was awake while a medical team at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital reopened one of his previously stented arteries using a new heart procedure. "It's working," the 73-year-old said a few ...

Scientists are developing a novel way to prop open clogged heart arteries: using a stent designed to dissolve once it finishes the job. Heart stents are tiny metal-mesh tubes that have been implanted ...